Genre: Quilting

Maday Delgado is a prolific, bilingual art educator devoted to sustainability. She is a published artist, author, and speaker based in the greater Madison, WI area, committed to bringing innovation and artistry to the forefront of the work she creates. Her mission is to nurture artistic platforms across cultures and generations to foster creative work, while finding ways to minimize our environmental footprint. 

Learning from cultural textile traditions and exchanging powerful stories, continues to be a source of inspiration that she hopes to share with all. Her goal is to unify students with different skillsets and share her love of art and vibrant textiles in a sustainable manner.  She combines paint, weaving, hand-stitching (her favorite) and machine sewing and embroidery to infuse her creations with energy, paying homage to her Cuban upbringing. She loves the art of collaging and storytelling with new and pre-loved textiles. She favors working with up-cycled materials and scraps as a way to honor the environment. Maday brings awareness about how our actions impact the world around us. The way we interact with textiles as a society affects how we use water, dispose of it and consume it, but also how much it contributes to its pollution. 

In her spare time, Maday creates and maintains community gardens in her community since 2014. In 2015 she began donating new sewing machines to non-profits in the hopes of sparking creativity, and support knowledge-based initiatives that foster economic prosperity and traditions for all. 

Maday’s sustainable quilts were featured as a special exhibit “Trash Talk” at the Great WI Quilt Show in Madison WI in 2025 with a follow up at the Minnesota Quilters Show in 2026. Her first solo exhibit will take place in Ephraim, WI in 2026, with an on-demand video about Sustainability in Quilting with the national Modern Quilt Guild, also airing in 2026. 

Maday’s work has appeared on the Quilt Show with Alex Anderson and Ricky Tims, international and national publications and periodicals in her home state. She also presented virtually to the design students at the Indian Institute of Art & Design in New Delhi, India in 2020 and currently teaches at Folk Schools, Quilt Shops, Quilt Shows and guilds across the US. Please follow her adventures on IG (sustainabletextiledesign).